Web technology is a standard that allows you to develop Web applications with the help of pre-defined sets of classes, objects, methods, and properties available in a markup language, style sheet language, or programming language. It also provides an interface that allows the sharing of information between a Web server and its clients. A Web server is a computer that stores and hosts a website to make it available to its clients. A Web server is a computer that stores and hosts a website to make it available to its clients with the help of specific URL link. Using different Web technologies, you can create professional looking websites. You can also develop dynamic Web pages, which allow users to update, edit, and format the text and upload or replace images, photos, or videos without the help of a Web designer.
Some common Web technologies to develop websites are given as follows:
Introduction to Web Technologies
- HTML (HYPER TEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE)
HTML is a markup language commonly used to create Web pages. A markup language provides a way to describe the structure of text and graphics on a Web page. HTML is developed and maintained by World Wide Web consortium (W3C). It is derived from a more general markup language called Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) which is an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) technology that defines markup languages.
- JS (JAVA SCRIPT)
JavaScript is an object-oriented scripting language that is used to design interactive websites. It is developed by Netscape and works in all major browsers, such as Internet Explore, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari. Web developers can use JavaScript with HTML code to add dynamic content to their websites. JavaScript is an interpreted language, implying JavaScript requires an interpreter to execute its code.
- CSS
CSS is a style sheet language that is used to describe the appearance and formatting of a Web document, which is written in a markup language. Some examples of these markup languages are HTML and XML. CSS enables you to keep separate the instructions related to the presentation of Web content from the Web content itself. For instance, you can specify an image on a Web page code. The instructions related to the presentation of Web content can be described in a separate CSS document, which is also known as CSS style sheet. This separation provides improved content accessibility, flexibility, and style sharing for websites.
- XML (EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE)
XML is a markup language based on simple and platform-independent rules for processing and displaying textual information in a structured way. The platform-independent nature of XML makes XML document an ideal format for exchanging structured textual information among different applications. In the recent years, XML has evolved Web document performing various operations, such as configuration information, publishing, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), voicemail systems, vector graphics, Remote method Invocation (RMI), and object serialization.
- XML (EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE)
XHTML is a standard markup language for designing Web applications. It combines the features of HTML and XML, and considered as a restrictive subset of SGML.
- AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
AJAX is a set of several technologies that help you to develop Web application with better user experience.
- ASP.NET
ASP.NET is a Web development model, which is used to deliver interactive and data-driven Web application over the Internet.
- PHP (HYPERTEXT PREPROCESSER)
PHP is a scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. It is an interpreter language that is executed on server side.